Optimizing for operational efficiency

Overview

Goal

An integrated financial onboarding platform for the largest bank in the United States is initiating an application redesign for Customer Due Diligence. Insights gained from this pilot can be leveraged towards the effectiveness of the overall Client Onboarding Platform.

Hypothesis

Intervention Hypothesis

We can achieve enhanced customer onboarding speed for KYC workflows by refining data input methods, identifying automation areas, and improving data observability.

Target Persona

Teresa Oscar is a Prime Services Onboarder. She values speed and agility when it comes to her team’s performance. She wants the superpowers of a developer to create the ultimate workflow for her team. Her current processes require manual work to track case progress through emails, phone calls, and external tools to get the job done.

Outcome

The Customer Due Diligence application was completed to the satisfaction of the business. The learnings from the three interventions informed the creation of design principles for the UX design team.

3 interventions were implemented and insights were leveraged to enhance the Client Onboarding Platform.

Results

Conducted 36 user focus group sessions

Conducted 36 user focus group sessions

Defined evaluation criteria & benchmarks

Defined evaluation criteria & benchmarks

Reduced user-prone errors & enhanced system learnability

Reduced user-prone errors & enhanced system learnability

Advanced user experience for 14k~ employees worldwide

Advanced user experience for 14k~ employees worldwide

Intervention

Collapsable Menus

Collapsable
Menu

Before and after

Goal

Redesign the Client Due Diligence application to reduce confusion.

Intervention Hypothesis

Clear hierarchy, eliminating redundancies, and reducing the amount of information on a page will create focus and improve usability.

Results

Increased perceived usability by 4pts on the System Usability Scale.

Intervention

Stepper

Stepper

Before and after

Goal

Design a compose feature to support a transaction of data transfer between the Credit and Legal teams.

Intervention Hypothesis

Using a stepper will allow user testers to accurately and effectively send a data package in under 10 minutes.

Results

a) 6 out of 6 users testers were able to create any combination of packages in 3 attempts per task or less.
b) Average time to package submission 5 minutes and 16 seconds.

Intervention

Progressive Disclosure

Progressive
Disclosure

Before and after

Goal

Digitize a manual workflow that captures data to assess regulatory impact when onboarding a new client.

Intervention Hypothesis

Using progressive disclosure and a single-column form field layout will make it easier for the user to complete and review inputted details that prevent human errors.

Results

a) 6 out of 6 user testers were able to complete the form in 3 attempts per task or less.
b) Average time to form submission 4 minutes and 9 seconds.

Insight

Insight

Recognizing opportunities to change measures of success

Recognizing opportunities to change measures of success

Designing an integrated financial onboarding platform for wholesale retail was a stand-out experience in terms of my growth as a designer. I learned how to recognize an opportunity to raise standards and drive meaningful improvements with design. By introducing industry methods for UX evaluation, I was able to broaden the possibility of transformative change.

Measuring success by the number of clicks alone needed further definition. Adding a System Usability Scale (SUS) measure resulted in an unexpected solution that met efficiency standards yet was intuitive and required no training. Qualitative feedback began to shift from usability issues to enhancements in automation driving the focus towards innovation.